An interested party could figure out a judge's address. And when you've got that then you'd know who their potential local providers are. And once you know those you know the range of possible IP addresses. And once you've got that - brute force. Ping everyone. Any return ping gets a spoofed false positive. Or if you're of the 'nuke it from orbit' mindset, false positive the whole subnet.
Piece of cake. If someone were so inclined, that is. Not that I'd advocate anyone ever doing this, of course. Oh heavens, no.
if you think a minute about such "traps", they are effectively achieving* their goal, which is to make people slow down in the corresponding area.
Then why hide?
Seriously. If they want people to slow down, why hide behind billboards and bridges and other stuff and pop out and snag people?
If they honestly wanted everyone to slow down they'd just park on the side of the road in the very most visible spot. Watch your fellow drivers on the freeway sometime. They see a cop car, they hit the brakes. Even if he has someone pulled over and its obvious they could fly right by him.
They hide because it helps them write tickets. That's the goal of a speedtrap. Income. I'm sure the PR people love to smile at the camera and talk about how their just saving lives, but their actions simply do not agree. You can't tell me that having all this ticket revenue pouring in means nothing.
If they really want people to drive the speed limit, park out in the open.
Thank you kdawson for all those links. I didn't even know most of those companies were even in business today. And seriously - I loved every single one of those when I was a kid.
I've bookmarked them all for my son for when he's ready. Can't wait to launch rockets, or look at stuff under microscopes, or look at the moon with a telescope with him.
Corporations are self-interested. And plenty of them go out of business when their entire concern is making money. They're not going to engage in any risky behavior like putting something ahead of survival.
What you'd get would be a lot of clever lawyering to get around whatever regulations were put in. Then a lot of lobbying to do away with it.
Hollywood will glitz up the story, and gloss over the personal details. IMHO, it's the personal relationships that make the Watchmen such a good story. At its core it is a story about people, not action.
It'll be a shame to watch that take a back seat to special effects.
Especially when I still get phone calls from former employers about code written 10 years ago (irregardless or if I wrote it), and they expect answers for free
People try this trick all the time, trying to get something for free. Put a stop to it.
Tell them up front that you work with code for a living and you don't work for free. Then give them a hefty hourly rate. And tell them you don't work partial hours. A five minute call gets billed for the full hour.
One of two things will happen.
1) They'll pull their heads out of their asses, learn to solve their own problems and stop bugging you.
You could ditch the batteries part of your calculation if you were hooked to the power grid. Your meter would simply run backwards as you sell your energy back to the grid during those times where you are making more than you are using.
Best part is that will usually happen during peak, so you get a maximum return on what you're selling back to the grid. Also with this setup, if you need some high power application you don't have to worry about overloading your system.
They said the same thing about DVD. About Blue-Ray. About Securom and Safedisc and Macrovision. About your XBox and your Playstation. About the ECU controller in your car.
If anyone is an ignorant asshat, it's you. History is on my side in this argument. And if you had half an ounce of brains you'd understand that a system is fundamentally flawed when someone wants to hide content from you, but also hands you the keys.
If it gets decrypted on your machine, who cares if it's digital video or program instructions? They're bytes. They have to be unencrypted to work. Doesn't matter if it's unencrypted to become video and seen, or unencrypted to become program instructions and executed. It's just unencrypting bytes.
That's why it'll never work. Reason being, the protection scheme is flawed. The person they're trying to prevent from decrypting the payload is the same person who is holding the decryption keys. This scheme is broken by design.
I've still got my original C64 Ogre box. Complete with rulebook, backstory, and even the radiation badge. Although the radiation dots have long since maxed out.
They just don't go out of their way to add cool stuff to games like this today, AFAIK. Like an actual working radiation detector.
As Lawerence Lessig argues (in part) in his book Free Culture, movie companies don't care about piracy, what they worry about is a reduction in the barriers to market. P2P enables anyone with a $200 camera and a $1500 computer to be a movie producer and seen by anyone almost instantly with no restrictions to geographic region.
That argument works just fine for music, but IMHO not so great for movies.
Reason being, a good song is just that - a good song. Three or four people with a few thousand dollars worth of gear can make some damn good music. Put them in a million dollar studio and the quality doesn't really go up all that much.
A good movie is a lot more difficult. Far more expensive. While scripting lately has sucked, Hollywood can't really be beat in terms of technical prowess. Unlike music, the more money you throw at a given project the better the results. Watch some of the other CDs that came with your Lord of the Rings set to see just how much went into making that, for example.
To put the argument on the other side of the court - how about porn? The one movie market where the large retailers and the home producers are on close to equal footing. Reason being - no script, no special effects, no huge budget. All you need is a room, a camera, and a few willing people. And homemade porn sure hasn't put a damper on the professionally produced variety.
I think the music people are far more worried about the "barrier to market" argument. And the litigation record would probably back that up. It's the RIAA that's going mad with the lawsuits. Compared to those folks, you hear hardly a peep from the MPAA.
Because they were hoping to set a precedent, that's why.
Same reason the RIAA backs out anytime one of their victims looks like he can put up a decent fight. Precedent is powerful.
The difference here being that Autodesk got their asses handed to them because they decided to see their illogical claim all the way through to a ruling. I'm sure they were hoping for a ruling in their favor so that future claims would be a rubber-stamp process.
Unfortunately for them, they lost. Surprise! Now the rubber stamp is in the hands of the consumers. You takes your chances and you rolls your dice, right?
These people are helping make your POS operating system usable. Why not patent how they are doing it and see if you can make a buck off of them with some patent trolling? It'd serve you right if they all just thumbed their noses at you and quit making AV software right then and there.
Forget the seven wonders of the ancient world, I'm interested in a bigger mystery - how in the hell do you people stay in business?
Back when I was in college I had two friends that were sharing an apartment. One worked in the day, the other at night. Their only communication was a chessboard on top of the TV. Each person would take a move before going to bed.
One friend cheated. He compiled GNU chess on his Linux box, inputted the board, cranked it up to nearly maximum, and left it to calculate the next move. It would take about 10 hours or so to calculate its next move.
He'd come home from work, make a sandwich, login and get his move, and go to bed. Needless to say he was kicking much ass, and his friend was mightily puzzled at his ability to do so.
He finally came clean though - it was a pretty funny scene when he did. =)
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An interested party could figure out a judge's address. And when you've got that then you'd know who their potential local providers are. And once you know those you know the range of possible IP addresses. And once you've got that - brute force. Ping everyone. Any return ping gets a spoofed false positive. Or if you're of the 'nuke it from orbit' mindset, false positive the whole subnet.
Piece of cake. If someone were so inclined, that is. Not that I'd advocate anyone ever doing this, of course. Oh heavens, no.
Apparently since a DDOS is a legal move in this game (if you'll recall the MediaDefender fiasco recently), maybe we could use this technique and flood P2P space with false positives.
I'll bet once every single judge in the USA gets a "Cease and Desist" letter they'll eventually see that the RIAA's tactics aren't valid.
If you want to improve education in the USA, stop letting the dumbest folk breed like bunnies.
Describe in a thousand words or less how you accomplish that without facism.
A: Only 8270.
BCwipe would leave a simliar fingerprint if you used DoD wipe. All you'd have is an empty hard drive full of random characters in the interstices.
Then why hide?
Seriously. If they want people to slow down, why hide behind billboards and bridges and other stuff and pop out and snag people?
If they honestly wanted everyone to slow down they'd just park on the side of the road in the very most visible spot. Watch your fellow drivers on the freeway sometime. They see a cop car, they hit the brakes. Even if he has someone pulled over and its obvious they could fly right by him.
They hide because it helps them write tickets. That's the goal of a speedtrap. Income. I'm sure the PR people love to smile at the camera and talk about how their just saving lives, but their actions simply do not agree. You can't tell me that having all this ticket revenue pouring in means nothing.
If they really want people to drive the speed limit, park out in the open.
www.trapster.com
It's an interactive thingy where you post where cops are hiding in speed traps.
I'm surprised it's still up, honestly.
Thank you kdawson for all those links. I didn't even know most of those companies were even in business today. And seriously - I loved every single one of those when I was a kid.
I've bookmarked them all for my son for when he's ready. Can't wait to launch rockets, or look at stuff under microscopes, or look at the moon with a telescope with him.
Corporations are self-interested. And plenty of them go out of business when their entire concern is making money. They're not going to engage in any risky behavior like putting something ahead of survival.
What you'd get would be a lot of clever lawyering to get around whatever regulations were put in. Then a lot of lobbying to do away with it.
Hollywood will glitz up the story, and gloss over the personal details. IMHO, it's the personal relationships that make the Watchmen such a good story. At its core it is a story about people, not action.
It'll be a shame to watch that take a back seat to special effects.
A major one.
People try this trick all the time, trying to get something for free. Put a stop to it.
Tell them up front that you work with code for a living and you don't work for free. Then give them a hefty hourly rate. And tell them you don't work partial hours. A five minute call gets billed for the full hour.
One of two things will happen.
1) They'll pull their heads out of their asses, learn to solve their own problems and stop bugging you.
2) You'll have extra beer money.
Win-win.
You could ditch the batteries part of your calculation if you were hooked to the power grid. Your meter would simply run backwards as you sell your energy back to the grid during those times where you are making more than you are using.
Best part is that will usually happen during peak, so you get a maximum return on what you're selling back to the grid. Also with this setup, if you need some high power application you don't have to worry about overloading your system.
They said the same thing about DVD. About Blue-Ray. About Securom and Safedisc and Macrovision. About your XBox and your Playstation. About the ECU controller in your car.
If anyone is an ignorant asshat, it's you. History is on my side in this argument. And if you had half an ounce of brains you'd understand that a system is fundamentally flawed when someone wants to hide content from you, but also hands you the keys.
If it gets decrypted on your machine, who cares if it's digital video or program instructions? They're bytes. They have to be unencrypted to work. Doesn't matter if it's unencrypted to become video and seen, or unencrypted to become program instructions and executed. It's just unencrypting bytes.
That's why it'll never work. Reason being, the protection scheme is flawed. The person they're trying to prevent from decrypting the payload is the same person who is holding the decryption keys. This scheme is broken by design.
He must not have had his Wheaties that morning. That's the really dumbest thing I've seen him say in a long time.
He says this:
a new stealth encryption chip called TPM will 'absolutely stop piracy of gameplay'.But he also says this:
...it won't stop movie or music piracy, since 'if you can watch it and you can hear it, you can copy it.'So tell me Nolan, exactly how does that work? Do the bytes that make up movies have a different flavor somehow than the bytes in a computer program?
In short Nolan, never underestimate the power of fifteen year old kids who live in the Netherlands. Be prepared to eat those words.
PS: Wiki has a page up on TPM already. Along with links to already existing attacks.
I've still got my original C64 Ogre box. Complete with rulebook, backstory, and even the radiation badge. Although the radiation dots have long since maxed out.
They just don't go out of their way to add cool stuff to games like this today, AFAIK. Like an actual working radiation detector.
That argument works just fine for music, but IMHO not so great for movies.
Reason being, a good song is just that - a good song. Three or four people with a few thousand dollars worth of gear can make some damn good music. Put them in a million dollar studio and the quality doesn't really go up all that much.
A good movie is a lot more difficult. Far more expensive. While scripting lately has sucked, Hollywood can't really be beat in terms of technical prowess. Unlike music, the more money you throw at a given project the better the results. Watch some of the other CDs that came with your Lord of the Rings set to see just how much went into making that, for example.
To put the argument on the other side of the court - how about porn? The one movie market where the large retailers and the home producers are on close to equal footing. Reason being - no script, no special effects, no huge budget. All you need is a room, a camera, and a few willing people. And homemade porn sure hasn't put a damper on the professionally produced variety.
I think the music people are far more worried about the "barrier to market" argument. And the litigation record would probably back that up. It's the RIAA that's going mad with the lawsuits. Compared to those folks, you hear hardly a peep from the MPAA.
Because they were hoping to set a precedent, that's why.
Same reason the RIAA backs out anytime one of their victims looks like he can put up a decent fight. Precedent is powerful.
The difference here being that Autodesk got their asses handed to them because they decided to see their illogical claim all the way through to a ruling. I'm sure they were hoping for a ruling in their favor so that future claims would be a rubber-stamp process.
Unfortunately for them, they lost. Surprise! Now the rubber stamp is in the hands of the consumers. You takes your chances and you rolls your dice, right?
I mean, look at how libraries have put all those authors and publishers out of business.
You can get the books for free there! It totally destroyed the book selling market.
I wonder how he'll cope with his deity forsaking him in the courtroom.
Should make for some fun reading should he choose to make a statement afterwards.
These people are helping make your POS operating system usable. Why not patent how they are doing it and see if you can make a buck off of them with some patent trolling? It'd serve you right if they all just thumbed their noses at you and quit making AV software right then and there.
Forget the seven wonders of the ancient world, I'm interested in a bigger mystery - how in the hell do you people stay in business?
...you insensitive clod.
Just grab GNU chess Windows port.
Funny story about GNU chess.
Back when I was in college I had two friends that were sharing an apartment. One worked in the day, the other at night. Their only communication was a chessboard on top of the TV. Each person would take a move before going to bed.
One friend cheated. He compiled GNU chess on his Linux box, inputted the board, cranked it up to nearly maximum, and left it to calculate the next move. It would take about 10 hours or so to calculate its next move.
He'd come home from work, make a sandwich, login and get his move, and go to bed. Needless to say he was kicking much ass, and his friend was mightily puzzled at his ability to do so.
He finally came clean though - it was a pretty funny scene when he did. =)
Are you sure? IIRC, there is a gap between each rail to allow for thermal expansion so the rails don't buckle in the sunshine.